Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 9
Ancient Greek and Roman statues were often painted in bright colours; scientists find traces of the paint with special lights and microscopes.
Who acts: scientists · What happens: paint, find · To what, where: Ancient Greek statues, bright colours, traces
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 statues | amod |
| 2 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 statues | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Roman | cc |
| 4 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Greek | conj |
| 5 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 painted | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 painted | aux:pass |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 painted | advmod |
| 8 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 colours | case |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 colours | amod |
| 11 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 painted | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 13 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 find | nsubj |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 painted | parataxis |
| 15 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 paint | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 paint | det |
| 18 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 traces | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 lights | case |
| 20 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lights | amod |
| 21 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 find | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 microscopes | cc |
| 23 | microscopes | microscope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lights | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past · passive | Ancient Greek statues | bright colours | often property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in colour=Destination | |||
| 2 | find | present | scientists | traces of the paint | with special lights and microscopes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:9.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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